Kan door Huid Heen (2009)
Genre: Drama
Duration: 94 minuten
Alternative title: Can Go through Skin
Country:
Netherlands
Directed by: Esther Rots
Stars: Rifka Lodeizen and Wim Opbrouck
IMDb score:
6,9 (661)
Releasedate: 29 January 2009
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Kan door Huid Heen plot
The bubble of the carefree urban life of the thirty-something Marieke is abruptly punctured when her boyfriend breaks up with her. In the turbulent period that follows, a randomly passing madman invades her house and assaults her. From an 'ordinary' person who thinks he has everything, Marieke changes into a victim. In no time.
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Chainsaw
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- 8845 messages
- 3576 votes
It is a fact that Rifka Lodeizen delivers a top performance here; clearly a heavy role, which she manages to convey remarkably well. Unfortunately, Kan door Huid Heen's script doesn't really work. For example, I learned little or nothing about her character before the assault, so that the effect of compassion and touching was a bit lacking for me. You do want to empathize with Marieke, but that is quite difficult if you have to keep guessing what kind of person she actually was throughout the film. The film is overflowing with scenes that should grab you by the throat, but unfortunately for me they only got stuck half way through. As sublime as the acting is and how much screen time a character gets, the main character here just kept hovering above the surface for me.
Furthermore, I had the idea that in the long run everything was made much more complicated than necessary. To be vague for the sake of being vague. The premise is certainly interesting and often it is clear where Rots wants to go with her choices, but at a certain point she resorts way too much to unclear editing choices and tossing back and forth between different scenes. Fine if you want to symbolize the tormented state of mind of the character, but at a certain point she really lost me. It didn't want to fascinate me anymore and it was more tiring than intriguing. Just like the music and sound design. Occasionally it may have set the right tone, but that experimental pinging on a false piano is also just bloody irritating at the same time.
All in all, apparently not quite my cup of tea. Nevertheless, compliments for the occasionally strong atmosphere and of course the role of Lodeizen.
2.5 stars.
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BBarbie
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- 12893 messages
- 7675 votes
Despite Rifka Lodeizen's rock-solid tour-de-force, this is a mediocre film. This is mainly because Marieke deals with the processing of a very traumatic experience much too superficially. I'm no psychologist, but self-imposed isolation in an old, dilapidated slum in the countryside doesn't seem the most appropriate way to get your life back on track. Why Marieke chooses to do so is never made comprehensible at any time. Even the proverbial tip of the veil is missing. That the isolation doesn't really help is clear from the fact that there is little progress to be seen.
In summary: despite Lodeizen's excellent acting, a disappointing film. Not only because of the messy story, but also because of the confused montage with partly inexplicable images.
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sinterklaas
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- 11813 messages
- 3316 votes
In the Netherlands we have billions of films about housewives and those corny dramas... This falls a bit under the category, but this is well made.
Rifka Lodeizen does play a very strong role here as a woman who flees the city... It reminds her too much of some traumatic experiences she went through there. She moves to the middle of nowhere somewhere in Zeeland... In a dilapidated house that is almost collapsing... Instead of the desired peace and time to think, she ends up in isolation...
It all sounds very dramatic again... But... The great thing about this film is that it is told in an artistic and profound way... without the melodrama and tearjerker content dripping off. The gloom and cold of both the place of residence and the environment can be felt as a viewer... Marieke's outbursts... her fantasy about how she is holding a former assailant hostage... and the final scenes with her neighbor.
Yes, this story is saved by the subtlety... since you know which way it often goes when you put it in Dutch hands. The soundtrack is also doable.... Folky and abstract and just as calming.
A film to warm to (to experience the cold atmosphere.)
4.0*
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